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I still don't get why BIOWARE aren't disproving the Indoctrination theory. We (the fans) continue to ask about it but all BIOWARE say is "No comment" or "We're not talking about it". If it does exist then it was pointless to release the EC DLC. BIOWARE...JUST SAY YES﻿ OR NO GOD DAMN IT!

There are just too many reasons the ending sucked. It takes quite a lot of talent to mess up in that grand manner.

Of course making their motivations stupid hurt. Forcing you to take three options presented to you from your enemy hurt. Making the war assets next to worthless, final battle's potential completely wasted, making some choices not matter at all going into this game (Rachni), all of it hurt the ending and leading up to it. The bad ending also just made it tough to ignore the weaknesses of the game overall. The lack of dialogue choices was painfully obvious at times. You just sat there waiting for your chance to chime in, but the chatter just kept on going. Again the value of the choices was mixed, sometimes they really were important and sometimes you had the same situation no matter what you did in the earlier games.

In the end the fact that the Indoctrination Theory made more sense than the original endings is just sad. Have to agree that in order to avoid such a terrible conclusion in the first place more than just avoiding revealing the Reaper's motives would have been needed. Kill the blue child and just have a final battle that changes depending on the choices you made to this point. That would have been fine.

The starchild is only part of the problem. The real problem is that the ending channels the game into an ABC ending instead of letting the endings depend on what you did over the course of this game and the ones prior.

That's the thing with the Control ending; it implies that the individual Reaper units don't have any independence whatsoever. There is no consensus governance; even the Reapers themselves are "under direct control" of the Star Child.

and clearly this is something that shouldn't happen considering "We are sovereign. Each of us is an entire nation" when Shepard asked them who their leader was in ME1

To be fair, sovereign was just bullshitting during the entire conversation. I mean, he also claimed that the reapers "have no beginning" which, this being a sci-fi setting, we had labeled bullshit even before ME2's "how to build a reaper" hammering it in.

To be fair, sovereign was just bullshitting during the entire conversation. I mean, he also claimed that the reapers "have no beginning" which, this being a sci-fi setting, we had labeled bullshit even before ME2's "how to build a reaper" hammering it in.

But it was epic bullshit! Gawd I miss him, he had the best voice in the whole frenchise!

Could you possibly be a little less misogynistic and immature? WE GET IT. We know you don't like femshep. A LOT OF PEOPLE DO, SO SHE'S EVERYWHERE.

Don't bitch every time you see it; I don't complain loudly on message boards every time I look at ME official artwork and see the generic male Shepard!

Actually I don't like FemShep either :P And I'm pretty content with MaleShep's default face. I actually can't comprehend how other people actually go and create their own face. Most of the custom MaleShep's I've seen are downright horrible :P

Actually I don't like FemShep either :P And I'm pretty content with MaleShep's default face. I actually can't comprehend how other people actually go and create their own face. Most of the custom MaleShep's I've seen are downright horrible :P

Hmm, it depends on the person, really. For me, it added that touch of self to it. This wasn't just anyone's Shepard, this was my Shepard. It made the Shepard I played unique, to the point where I spend a full day fixing ME3's buggy import feature. I just couldn't play another Shepard. I was so used to the face I had crafted myself and played for years.